Mississippi Business Journal » Apollo 13 http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Wed, 22 May 2013 14:27:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Infinity lifts off at Stennis Space Center on the Gulf Coast http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/04/08/infinity-lifts-off/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=infinity-lifts-off http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/04/08/infinity-lifts-off/#comments Sun, 08 Apr 2012 06:01:35 +0000 Stephen McDill http://msbusiness.com/?p=55437 BAY ST. LOUIS: The towering sculpture of a soaring eagle greets motorists as they turn into the massive gravel parking lot just off Interstate 10 in Hancock County. Crafted from hurricane-battered timber and scrap metal from a nearby rocket test stand, the lone eagle is the first to welcome visitors to the new Infinity Science [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/04/08/infinity-lifts-off/feed/ 0 “Houston, we’ve had a problem” http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/04/18/houston-weve-had-a-problem/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=houston-weve-had-a-problem http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/04/18/houston-weve-had-a-problem/#comments Sun, 18 Apr 2010 14:58:40 +0000 Stephen McDill http://msbusiness.com/?p=22418 Apollo 13 astronaut Fred Haise recalls the mission’s perilous voyage… and heroic return. Failure. As Odyssey, command module for NASA’s Apollo 13 lunar mission, hurtled back to Earth at an altitude of more than 34,000 miles, lunar module pilot Fred Wallace Haise Jr. was worried not about whether or not the spacecraft’s epoxy-resin heat shield [...]

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